List of Murray Rothbard Quotes

Subjectivism Is Not An Absolute Principle; It Is A Necessary But Not Sufficient Condition For Sound Methodology.

...the Very Nature Of Interstate War Puts Innocent Civilians Into Great Jeopardy, Especially With Modern Technology.

Restoring Prayer ... Will Scarcely At This Date Solve The Grievous Public School Problem. Public Schools Are Expensive And Massive Centers For Cultural And Ideological Brainwashing, At Which They Are Unfortunately Far More Effective Than In Teaching The 3 R's Or In Keeping Simple Order Within The Schools. Any Plan To Begin Dismantling The Public School Monstrosity Is Met With Effective Opposition By The Teachers' And Educators' Unions. Truly Radical Change Is Needed To Shift Education From Public To Unregulated Private Schooling, Religious And Secular, As Well As Home Schooling By Parents.

This Process, This Method Necessary To Man's Survival And Prosperity Upon The Earth, Has Often Been Derided As Unduly Or Exclusively "materialistic." But It Should Be Clear That What Has Happened In This Activity Proper To Man's Nature Is A Fusion Of "spirit" And Matter; Man's Mind, Using The Ideas It Has Learned, Directs His Energy In Transforming And Reshaping Matter Into Ways To Sustain And Advance His Wants And His Life. Behind Every "produced" Good, Behind Every Man-made Transformation Of Natural Resources, Is An Idea Directing The Effort, A Manifestation Of Man's Spirit.

So: If The Chronic Inflation Undergone By Americans, And In Almost Every Other Country, Is Caused By The Continuing Creation Of New Money, And If In Each Country Its Governmental "central Bank" (in The United States, The Federal Reserve) Is The Sole Monopoly Source And Creator Of All Money, Who Then Is Responsible For The Blight Of Inflation? Who Except The Very Institution That Is Solely Empowered To Create Money, That Is, The Fed (and The Bank Of England, And The Bank Of Italy, And Other Central Banks) Itself?

After The Volcker Fund Collapsed, I Got Another Grant From The Lilly Endowment To Do A History Of The U.s., Which I Worked On From 1962-66. The Original Idea Was To Take The Regular Facts And Put A Libertarian Assessment On Everything.

All Government Wars Are Unjust.

We Must Therefore Turn To History For Enlightenment; Here We Find That None Of The Proclaimed Anarchist Groups Correspond To The Libertarian Position, That Even The Best Of Them Have Unrealistic And Socialistic Elements In Their Doctrines. Furthermore, We Find That All Of The Current Anarchists Are Irrational Collectivists, And Therefore At Opposite Poles From Our Position. We Must Therefore Conclude That We Are Not Anarchists, And That Those Who Call Us Anarchists Are Not On Firm Etymological Ground, And Are Being Completely Unhistorical.

Essentially, I Mean The Almost Self-evident Fact That Individuals, Ethnic Groups, And Races Differ Among Themselves In Intelligence And In Many Other Traits, And That Intelligence, As Well As Less Controversial Traits Of Temperament, Are In Large Part Hereditary.

The More These Readjustments Are Delayed ... The Longer The Depression Will Have To Last, And The Longer Complete Recovery Is Postponed.

The Natural Tendency Of The State Is Inflation. This Statement Will Shock Those Accustomed To Viewing The State As A Committee Of The Whole Nation Ardently Dispensing The General Welfare, But I Think It Nonetheless True.

The Concept Of Life And Perfection Is Incompatible. But So Is Death And Perfection